Helpers on the rear getting ready to help push the loaded coal train to Altoona before cutting off.

Helper set

NS manifest train passes Carneys Crossing with SD70ACU #7231 as the DPU.

Two NS SD70ACU locomotives approach Carneys Crossing.

Helper set.

NS 7249 (SD70ACU) battles the grade at Lilly, PA on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. The lead engine started out as a UP SD9043MAC and was rebuilt by NS's shops in Altoona, PA to a SD70ACU in D... (more)

With the Erie heritage unit trailing behind an ES44AC, empty oil train 65R descends the West Slope on Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh Line. The classic PRR signal bridge at Lilly, Pennsylvania has s... (more)

With a pair of Tier 4 GEVO's bracketing a pair of SD70ACe's, Norfolk Southern coal train 777 descends the West Slope. The train is passing under the PRR signals in Lilly, Pennsylvania that have si... (more)

NS 4000 leads an intermodal down the west slope towards Pittsburgh. 4000 is one of the first AC44C6M rebuilds, and has the nickname "Sonic Bonnet" for its blue mane.

A pair of SD40E helpers are on the head end of loaded trash train 63V as it descends the West Slope grade of the Alleghenies in Lilly, Pennsylvania. PRR position light signals stood guard here for... (more)

The Lackawanna heritage unit leads 21J through Lilly

Light helpers drift downgrade through Lilly.

SD70ACU 7255 leads 67X past 39G, which was stopped due to air problems.

On September 24, 2009, the cool Autumn air at 1,904 feet (580 m) in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains has already triggered a few trees to begin changing colors. Eastbound Norfolk Southern inter... (more)